[THIN] Re: ghosting software
- From: "Rob Poston" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:16:25 -0700
I worked for a company where we had 4 different server vendors (Dell, IBM,
Compaq, and old HP servers) that all had RAID controllers. The key is to use
Sysprep so that it plugs and plays the h/w drivers after ghosting. If the RAID
drivers for the specific server you are using is not included with Windows 2000
then the trick is to get the drivers on the machine that you are using for the
base so that they will plug and play. We used Symantec Ghosts Enterprise
edition version 7.5.
We had deployed close to 1000 servers this way and were on the way to deploying
another 9000 before I left. The only problem that we had with this was that we
need to create an ACPI image and a non-ACPI image for the older machines
regardless of server vendor.
- Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: Nicolas Ouellet
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:50 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: ghosting software
We are looking for another software because Symantec doesn't give any support
on any RAID setup that is.
We have too many servers with too many different setup, too many different
raid controler.
I know that ghost could work but Idealy I rather use something that will work
100% at the first shot and be able to have full support if something is wrong.
Symantec will not give any support at all. therefore it's not the best solution.
thanks!
Nicolas
>>> lynch00@xxxxxxx 07/21/03 03:28PM >>>
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I have been able to successfully use Ghost to create an image from a
RAID array (hardware that is). What version of Ghost are you running
and what is the RAID card?
Chris
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Nicolas Ouellet
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:14 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] ghosting software
Hi list,
What would be the best way to ghost servers setup with Raid?
Symantec Ghost doesn't support Raids nor sees NTFS partitions (except
version 2003.)
any software you would recommend?
thanks
Nicolas
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